THE PROBLEM OF PEACE IS SAMPLE
Holmes, John Haynes
The Problem Of Peace Is Simple Br JOHN HAYNES HOLMES LISTEN, friends. to the words of Gandhi, spoken recently in India, in denunciation of the arrest of some more of the leaders of the Indian...
...that under the international setup now being arranged by the Big Three, these nations...
...That they are determined to be free, as they "of a right ought to be free," is elementary...
...Can we never understand how hollow seem even our finest words, and how futile our most solemn pledges, to these peoples who are not free...
...The fact that the conqueror of India is Britain, and not Nazi Germany as in Norway and Denmark, does not alter the situation in the slightest...
...The same message is now being spoken here in America by a distinguished visitor from India— Mrs...
...Mrs...
...And Mrs...
...Gandhi is right...
...So long as anywhere there are masters and slaves, big nations and little nations, military powers and imperialistic rules, so long will there be disturbance, struggle, and war...
...Pandit has herself been behind British bars, and her husband died in jail...
...This is what Gandh says: "If things go on as they are going in India, the victory that the Allies will have will he only so-called, because they will also have India and other nations in the same plight bleeding at their feet...
...Americans, English, French should be the first to recognize and sympathize with these facts...
...Why bother to write Yalta agreements reaffirming Atlantic Charters, when the basic principles of these charters are denied application to Indians, Africans, Malayans, Burmese, and other helpless nationalities...
...What folly it is to talk of peace after this war, with hundreds of millions of people in Asia and elsewhere in a condition of subjection to tyranny...
...The problem of peace is simple—so simple that it terrifies the powers-that-be to think of it...
...Pandit reminds us, as Gandhi reminds us, that this situation in India is a struggle for liberation as truly as any struggle in the occupied countries of Europe for liberation from Nazi arms...
...Yet it is as sure as sunrise tomorrow morning...
...This world is "one world...
...Any subjection anywhere will bring another war...
...More than 10.000 of these outstanding citizens are now in prison, for no other reason than that they protest against the British occupation of their country...
...Peace can be achieved only in terms of freedom for all mankind...
...the people in it are one people...
...Such victory can only lead in the near future to a war bloodier if possible than the one that will have closed, for victory at the expense of India will mean that out of the ashes of Fascism, Nazism, and Japanese militarism will have risen a new monster that will seek to eat all it sees—and in the attempt will be eaten up, leaving I know not what...
...One may cry peace, peace, until the end of time, but there will be no peace under these conditions...
...Pandit, the sister of the great Jawarhalal Nehru, who has been in prison since August, 1942...
...if they continue their struggles, will be adjudged "aggressor nations" and put down accordingly...
...to the words of Gandhi, spoken recently in India, in denunciation of the arrest of some more of the leaders of the Indian people...
...And that there can be no peace in the world until they are free, should be equally elementary...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 18
